Best of luck to our 21 fencers who will be heading to Lee Valley Athletics Stadium this week to represent the school at The Public Schools’ Fencing Championships.

The Championships, first held in March 1890, is by far the largest fencing competition in the country and is arguably the largest youth fencing event in the whole of Europe.  The annual 3-day fencing event contains 18 individual competitions and 6 Master-at-Arms trophies, which are awarded for being the best across all three fencing disciplines (foil, epee and sabre).

RGS has a long and distinguished history within the sport of fencing, boasting an impressive Roll of Honour including GB representation and successes in multiple competitions, including the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and The Public Schools’ Fencing Championships.

Roll of Honour

Simon Aspinall
Full Blue President and Captain Oxford University Fencing 1987-1991
1994 England Epee Team Commonwealth Games, Canada; Bronze Men’s individual Epee; Silver Men’s Team Epee.

Tom Bennett
PSFC Champion Epee 2003/2004
Former British No 1 Epee
GB Men’s Epee World Championships: 2002, 2003, 2004
GB Men’s Epee; including Junior Commonwealth Games 2006, Individual Men’s Epee Bronze medal and Team Silver

Noah Blackmore
GB Epee, Dublin 2018, Split 2019, Croatia 2019

Seth Blackmore
FIE International Referee - Paris, Bonn, Copenhagen, Espoo, Budapest, Krakow, Bratislava, Geneva and Heidenheim
GB Men’s Epee Dublin 2018, Split 2019

Mark Chacksfield
Cambridge University Modern Pentathlon 1994-97

Paul Dazeley 
PSFC Champion Epee
GB Men’s Epee, Junior Commonwealth Games Fencing Chennai 2006, Team Silver
GB Men’s Epee Squad 2003 -2007

James Everard
PSFC Champion Senior Foil
Full Blue Cambridge Captain University Blue Team 1986-1989
BUSA Epee Champion.

Alistair Gerrard
GB Epee Individual and Team European Championships Copenhagen, 2004
GB Men’s Epee European Championships Zaelegerzeg 2005
Winner British Championships 2006
Commonwealth Fencing Championships Melbourne 2010, Individual and Team Epee
International Referee

Adrian Griffin
PSFC Champion 1985, Senior Foil
World Student Games
GB Men’s Epee
GB Veterans

Louis Gosling
GB Men’s Sabre Godollo 2019

Lucas Kulmey
GB Men’s Epee

Nick Payne 
PSFC Champion Foil 1989/1990
Former British No1 Foil and England Captain Reserve Barcelona Olympics, 1992
Commonwealth Bronze medallist
International Referee and Assistant Referee for the Men's Foil Final at the London 2012 Olympics

Tom Payne
PSFC Champion Foil 1988
U20 GB Men’s Foil 1988-89

Joshua Radvan
Junior GB Modern Pentathlon Team 2007–2010
European Championships
World Championships finalist

Ed Rysdale
PSFC Champion Senior Foil 1991
BUSA Foil Champion Foil (twice)
BUSA Sabre Champion
GB Foil U20 World Cup
BUSA Team Saudi Arabia
British School Teams International

Seang -Lim Tan
Busa Champion Foil 1999

David Whiting
England School Teams Foil
BUSA Team Captain
Wales Commonwealth Games Kuala Lumpar 1998, Team Silver medal winner Foil